115-hr-7279115th Congress

Water Infrastructure Improvement Act

Sponsored By: Representative Gibbs, Bob [R-OH-7]

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Summary

Water Infrastructure Improvement Act This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to allow municipalities to develop a plan that integrates wastewater and stormwater management. A permit for a municipal discharge under the national pollutant discharge elimination system that incorporates an integrated plan may integrate all requirements under the Act addressed in the plan. Those permits may include a schedule of compliance that allows actions for meeting water quality-based effluent limitations to be implemented over more than one permit term if the compliance schedules are authorized by state water quality standards. The bill establishes an Office of the Municipal Ombudsman in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide: (1) technical assistance to municipalities seeking to comply with the Clean Water Act, and (2) information to the EPA to ensure that agency policies are implemented by all EPA offices. The EPA must promote the use of green infrastructure (i.e., measures that mimic natural processes to store, reuse, or reduce stormwater).

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Gibbs, Bob [R-OH-7]

OH • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-31]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 12/12/2018

  • Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]

    OH • R

    Sponsored 12/12/2018

  • Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]

    OH • D

    Sponsored 12/12/2018

  • Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]

    OH • R

    Sponsored 12/12/2018

  • Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 12/12/2018

  • Rep. Joyce, David P. [R-OH-14]

    OH • R

    Sponsored 12/19/2018

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